US Patent Issued to Montres Breguet on June 24 for "Horological movement comprising a stop-seconds function that can be operated from two separate actuating members" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,624, issued on June 24, was assigned to Montres Breguet S.A. (L'Abbaye, Switzerland).

"Horological movement comprising a stop-seconds function that can be operated from two separate actuating members" was invented by Alain Zaugg (Le Sentier, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A horological movement including a seconds wheel set, a power source, and a regulator (13) to regulate the motion of the seconds wheel set. The movement includes a control mechanism (20) to take an active state wherein it cooperates with the regulator (13) to immobilise it and with the seconds wheel set for driving it such that it rotates into a predefin...